Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
9 items. Material includes: advertisement/application form for accident insurance "for Los Angeles Times readers..." (1987); flyer with info. on "new extended Times Classified hours" (1987); tear sheet of ad, "We've put on a new face!" (1983); LAT classified's promo, "Perhaps Dick Tracy can solve...the mystery of the missing circulation." (ca. 1949); tear sheet of LAT ad, "the classified advertising picture for 10 months of 1938..."; booklet, "Your guide to Los Angeles Area streets and recreation" (1966); 2 other tear sheets of ads, 1966-1969; ad/poster, "Jubilee 1984 (1/1/1984) - unfolds to approx. 2' x 3';
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Approx. 25 items. Materials include a stack of invoice forms from 1932 to Times-Mirror Co. and LAT from Steel Furniture Manufacturing Co. of Baldwin Park, CA; informal inventory of "Number of typewriters in Editorial Depts"; "Requisition...for Supplies" form (1962); blueprint (no date) "Front elevation of typewriter stand"; stack of correspondence from office furniture providers on topic of typewriter stands (1934); (2 copies) Times-Mirror Co. "Specifications for typewriter stands (1934); legal-sized sheet headed "Schedule 'A' - Office furniture and equipment...to be furnished...(by) Metal Office Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.," etc.
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Approx. 12 items: LAT forms--time cards, vacation vouchers, Report of Absence; card with "Information on 1988 payroll tax rates..."; bulletins on 1987 and 1988 payroll tax rates; LAT informational flyers on "direct deposit" and "Free Checking," etc.
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Approx. 15 items: 2 LAT article copies related to LAT train / Pan-American Exposition train travel promo (1901); copy of ad headed "The Times and Sunset Magazine," (early 1900s issue); clippings on LAT involvement in Red Cross drives, war bond sales, etc.; 3-pp. report, "(LAT) civic activities and history since 1900," ca. 1960; info (on tiny slip of brown paper) on "Premiums with The Times included shotguns (1891)...copies of the poems of Eliza A. Otis...a sewing machine (1886)...The Times Almanac"; 2-pp. copies of Times-Mirror Co. "Promotion Department Expense[s] for...1920"; copies of Among Ourselves articles related to Promotion / Public Relations departments from 1930, 1956 and 1958; 2-pp. report, 4/29/1959, "Survey of Times-Mirror Company Public Service Activities," added in handwritten note - "Charities - Public Service."
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Approx. 25 items. Materials include: articles from Among Ourselves; 4/28/1989 Management Bulletin on reorganization of Display Advertising; undated "Review of the (LAT) Selective Saturation Program"; (LAT) Display Advertising Dept. - "Functional" Organization Chart - 1958"; "Orange County 10 Year Forecast, 1970-1980"; LAT Display Ad Depth Chart, 2 cps. (1979); LAT Retail Display Rates...1973-1982; reports on ad linage; article, Los Angeles magazine, 3/1977, "Can the 'Times' ad censors cope with the new morality?"; 46-pp. "Guide to the (LAT) Display Advertising Department [w/ employee photos]." 3/22/1985; February 1989 edition of "Display Advertising Digest;" etc.
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3 items: (4-sheets) photocopied photo essay from Among Ourselves, 12/1949, "Tabulating Dept.'s Mechanical Brains Know All the Answers"; clipped article, Among Ourselves, 6/1931, "A Machine Almost Human"; (2-sheets) cover and article, Among Ourselves, 11/1928, "Travails of a Treasurer."
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